UCLA DeShaun Foster’s blip as a head coach of the UCLA football program is over already, thankfully, 15 games in.

Five wins, 10 losses, including all three games so far this season – stark affairs in which the Bruins were outscored by a combined 108-43. Results that laid bare how far behind the curve the Bruins’ program is entering Year 2 in the Big Ten Conference.

Foster’s hurried firing Sunday morning comes after his hurried hiring in February 2024, his placement a band-aid one week after Chip Kelly bolted to be offensive coordinator at Ohio State.

Putting Foster in charge was a big risk. He’d never been a head coach, never a coordinator. No one knew how well he’d recruit, what type of play-caller he’d be, or how well the introverted figure would do as a fund-raiser and lead represent

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